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Having a Seder Meal on Passover would be an example of keeping a ceremonial law, sans the sacrifice (we still keep a lamb shank bone on ur plates to remind us of the necessity of the sacrifice. Also, should the temple be rebuilt, sacrifices would resume.How is one to keep the ceremonial laws if there is no longer any sacrifice needed?
How do we keep civil laws if we are not living in the Israel of 2,000 years ago?
IOW, I'm not saying you shouldn't live your conviction. God forbid! I do wonder though, HOW you could do this??
Just curious.
Giving 10% of my income to the poor and to support my religious leaders is an example of a civil law that I keep. In other regards, I see the civil laws as creating the "ideal" society, an ideal that I hope my own will strive for. So just as no one went hungry in Israel because of its laws governing redistribution of wealth, so someday do I hope my own country will be the same in its own non-identical way.
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